About Ĝišhur
Where it starts
People were drawing plans long before they could write. Engraved stones found in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, 7,000–8,000 years old, show huge stone hunting structures drawn to scale: the oldest known plans of real engineering works.
Writing began in Sumer more than five thousand years ago. The very first thing people wrote was not poetry or law. It was administrative records: tallies of grain, livestock, land, labour and rations, pressed into clay with a reed stylus. The scribes who kept them were the dubsar, and the tablets lived in the edubba, the “tablet house”.
In other words, the first thing humanity used its first writing system for was managing documents and projects.
The name
Ĝišhur stands in that lineage. It takes its name from the Sumerian word GIŠ-ḪUR: the plan, the design, the layout, the drawn blueprint of a thing.
Around 2100 BCE, Gudea of Lagash had himself carved in stone with the plan of a temple on his lap and a measuring scale beside it.
What it is
Project and document control that lives inside the tools you already use, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Your documents stay in your own environment. There’s no separate system to log into, and no data leaves your organisation unauthorised.
What it does
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Every document gets its number, its place in the register and its home in the right project library.
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Revisions and states are controlled from Draft to Preliminary or Released, then Superseded, so everyone knows which version counts.
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Approvals go to the right person before a document is released.
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Transmittals record what was sent, to whom and when.
Built by a practitioner
The model comes from decades of real engineering, information technology and document management experience, not theory.
Grows with you
Editions for every size of team. Start with what you need and add capabilities as your projects grow.
Coming soon